The hands of the clock warn me to close. This is one of the most trying hours of my whole life. It is an hour when tears are only endurable by being rainbowed with the memory of tender mercies and holy joys. When my feet descend those steps to-day, this will no longer be my pulpit. I surrender it back before God into your hands. One of my chiefest sorrows is that I leave some of my beloved hearers out of Christ. Oh, you have been faithfully warned here, and you have been lovingly invited here; and once more, as though God did beseech you by me, I implore you in Christ's name to be reconciled to God. This dear pulpit, whose teachings are based on the Rock of Ages, will stand long after the lips that now address you have turned to dust. It will be visible from the judgment seat; and its witness will be that I determined to know not anything among you save Jesus Christ and Him crucified. To-day I write the last page in the record of thirty bright, happy, Heaven-blessed years among you. What is written is written. I shall fold up the book and lay it away with all its many faults; and it will not lose its fragrance while between its leaves are the pressed flowers of your love. When my closing eyes shall look on that record for the last time, I hope to discover there only one name--the name that is above every name, the name of Him whose glory crowns this Eastern morn with radiant splendor, the name of Jesus Christ, King of kings, and Lord of lords. And the last words I utter in this sacred spot are unto Him that loves us and delivers us from sin with His precious blood; and unto God be all the praise and thanks and dominion and glory for ever and ever. Amen. INDEX. A Adams, Dr. William, 201-205. Albert, Prince, 32. Alexander, Archibald, 82, 191-3. Alexander, Dr. James W, 9. Alexander, Dr. Joseph Addison, 82, 193-5. Alexander, Stephen, 9. Allen, Mr. Alexander, 314. Allison, William J, 121. American Seamen's Friend Society, 255. Anderson, Captain James, 146, 149. Armstrong, Samuel C, 158. Astor, John Jacob, 273, 275-6. Aurora, birthplace, I. B Bailey, Joshua, 57. Baillie, Mrs. Joanna, 30-1. Barnes, Albert, 195. Batcheler, General, 231. Beecher, Henry Ward, 150, 152, 213-15, 295. Beecher, Miss Catherine, 231. Binney, Thomas, 170-172. Blair, General Francis P., 10. Bonar, Dr. Horatius, 40, 42. Booth, Mrs. Catherine, 265. Booth, General, 265. Bowring, Sir John, 39-40. Bright, John, 27, 134, 316. Brown, Dr. John, 105, 109, 147. Brooks, Phillips, 195. Burns, Robert, 12, 17-19, 26. Bushnell, Horace, 190-1. Byron, Lord, 13. C